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Where Have my Particles Gone?
The year of nanoparticles environmental fate photograph © Erica Minton I stopped listening and believing to New Year predictions after 2000. 2000 was The Year: the millennium bug, the end of the World,...
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Personalized Tumor Immunotherapy
Next-generation weapons to defeat cancer The immune system (IS) is the bodyguard that, with its army of cells equipped with various weapons, protects the body from attackers and preserves its health....
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Shaped by machines
The future of brain-machine interfaces photograph by Steve Grosbois Gaming without consoles, but by interacting with your thoughts. Playing virtual instruments with your mind. Typing your articles...
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From Theories to Statistics
Political scientists will finally bridge the gap Political science has not made much progress in the last centuries. Ever since Plato was pondering on types of regimes in his Republic, political...
View ArticleEditors Note | Katja Keuchenius
What does science hold for us in 2014? We were wondering about it at United Academics and decided to ask our editors around the world to answer this question in any written form they liked. They...
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Recommended Watching | Baraka
Does technology remove us further away from nature? Are we slaves of our own technology? Are we competing with nature? These are three of the many questions that enter your mind when you watch the...
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Open Access is Reinventing Scientific Publishing
Words by Nesru Koroso The development of the internet coupled with the dramatic increase in journal subscription fees in the 90s have triggered the creation of Open Access. This movement in the...
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Will Climate Change Make Animals Shrink?
Evidence for a global decrease in animal size due to global warming is scarce at best. Illustration by Soeshanah snel Climate change, unsurprisingly perhaps, is bound to have many ecological and...
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True Prophets Will Rhyme
2014 is almost 2014 is near The prophets will gather The prophets drink beer False prophets will shout Ridiculous things ‘The Sahara will flourish’ ‘The economy will sing’ True prophets are humble...
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Four Tips for Sticking to Your New Years’ Resolutions
Be specific The top resolutions made, but also the most difficult to stick to, are: lose weight, get fit, quit smoking, save more, be less stressed, see family more often, travel to new places and...
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Life on Earth: Best Before 1.75 Billion Years
Maybe not everybody knows that life on Earth has an expiration date, and it will come many years before the end of the Solar System. We know that the Sun is a middle-aged star, it is almost 5 billion...
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